There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

Pretend you’re more obsessed with this moment and a little bit less with the way it ends.

If there's love in a house, it's a palace for sure.

My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

You will never get any more out of life than you expect.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.